The European Political Science Association is proud to announce the following sponsors and exhibitors already signed up for the 2012 2nd Annual General Conference:

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions. Throughout its history, the Press has maintained a reputation for innovation and enterprise, through publishing the latest research, and through supporting the latest methodologies for teaching and learning. Its purpose is to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide. It publishes over 250 journals and over 2,500 books annually for distribution in nearly every country in the world. www.cambridge.org.

De Gruyter is an independent academic publishing house with a tradition spanning over 260 years. The publishing group with offices in Berlin, Boston, and Beijing annually publishes over 800 new titles in science, medicine, the humanities, and law and approx. 500 journals and digital media. Due to a distribution agreement with Harvard University Press (HUP) De Gruyter markets all HUP eBooks. Please visit http://www.degruyter.com for further information.

As a legal publishing company, Lexxion offers both professional journals and books closely related to legal practice in the fields of State Aid, Risk Regulation, Food, Carbon & Climate and Renewable Energy. Lexxion also organises a number of events relating to the fields of law of the journals - Europe-wide.

Verbi Software is the developer and distributor of MAXQDA, a state-of-the-art software for qualitative data analysis. For more than 20 years, MAXQDA has been the professional text analysis software of choice for thousands of researchers in various disciplines around the world. www.maxqda.com.

Polity is a leading international publisher in the social sciences and humanities and we publish some of the world’s best authors in these fields. Our aim is to combine the publication of original, cutting-edge work of the highest quality with a systematic programme of textbooks and coursebooks for students and scholars in further and higher education.

Provalis Research is the world's leading developer of text analysis software with ground-breaking qualitative and quantitative analysis programs, such as QDA Miner, an innovative mixed-methods qualitative data analysis software; Simstat, an easy yet powerful statistical software; and WordStat, a powerful add-on module for computer assisted content analysis and text mining. The most distinctive feature of these tools is their interoperability, allowing researchers to seamlessly move back and forth between quantitative and qualitative data analysis. For more information, visit www.provalisresearch.com.

SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC.

Bertelsmann Stiftung´s project Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) explores OECD countries along a set of 147 indicators in terms of their need for reform (Status Index) and their capacity for reform (Management Index). Employing both qualitative and quantitative research methods, the SGI seek to identify effective policy-making strategies by means of systematic comparison. The SGI’s in-depth country reports and the international rankings are backed up by the collective expertise of more than 80 renowned international scholars. Additionally, the SGI project conducts various special studies focusing on sustainability related topics such as social justice or intergenerational justice. Moreover, the policy performance and governance capacities of the emerging economic powers Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have been systematically examined by means of the SGI framework of analysis. In this manner, the SGI seek to contribute to the debate on “good governance” and sustainable policy-making, identify successful models and foster international learning processes within the OECD and beyond. For more information please see www.sgi-network.org.

Springer is one of the largest international publishers of scientific information, with more than 1,200 journals and 4,000 new books published per year. Inventive and high-quality products, creative business models, and mutually beneficial international partnerships have made us the favored publishing partner for researchers and professionals across the globe.  Please visit our booth to see our latest publications in political science and discuss your publishing proposals, and see www.springer.com.

POTENTIAL SPONSORS OR EXHIBITORS: If you are interested in being an exhibitor at the 2012 Conference in Berlin, please email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Prospectus for Exhibitors can be downloaded here.